It is hard to guess what a Chinkara weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chinkara (Gazella bennettii) on average weights 18.91 kg (41.68 lbs).
The Chinkara is from the family Bovidae (genus: Gazella). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 50 cm (1′ 8″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The chinkara (Gazella bennettii), also known as the Indian gazelle, is a gazelle species native to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Animals of the same family as a Chinkara
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- East Caucasian tur bringing 57.5 kilos (126.77 lbs) to the scale
- Jentink’s duiker bringing 68 kilos (149.91 lbs) to the scale
- Red hartebeest bringing 176.12 kilos (388.28 lbs) to the scale
- Kirk’s dik-dik bringing 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) to the scale
- Speke’s gazelle bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
- Dibatag bringing 28.05 kilos (61.84 lbs) to the scale
- Greater kudu bringing 205.53 kilos (453.12 lbs) to the scale
- Hirola bringing 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs) to the scale
- Günther’s dik-dik bringing 4.61 kilos (10.16 lbs) to the scale
- Common duiker bringing 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Chinkara
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gazella bennettii:
- Bay duiker with a weight of 20 kilos (44.09 lbs)
- Chacma baboon with a weight of 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs)
- Eurasian lynx with a weight of 19.3 kilos (42.55 lbs)
- Guinea baboon with a weight of 18.03 kilos (39.75 lbs)
- Four-horned antelope with a weight of 19.19 kilos (42.31 lbs)
- Arabian gazelle with a weight of 18.06 kilos (39.82 lbs)
- Gelada with a weight of 15.98 kilos (35.23 lbs)
- Mountain gazelle with a weight of 21.25 kilos (46.85 lbs)
- Oribi with a weight of 17.16 kilos (37.83 lbs)
- Black duiker with a weight of 19 kilos (41.89 lbs)